LOCAL  SCENES  - 3 'A tour of old Tayport'

Maitland Street - Pen & Ink

Queen Street - Pen & Ink (Sold)

Not too many changes here, the houses in the distance are gone, initially replaced with Joe's chip shop & cafe, the buildings were then demolished and a shop and houses built in their place.

1930's Still very much the same today, except for the gas lighting and telegraph poles.  The metal railings on the walls were cut off during the war and used to make amunition. Note the building on the second left - could it have been a hall or a large house??  It became the Picture House, I remember going here as a kid in the early 1960's - whit a treat!

Castle Street - Pen & Ink

Castle Street leading to Castle Terrace and down to the harbour area.  This house with the flag flying was also a cafe', the house on the direct left has now been altered to a two storey building

Henderson's Wynd - Pen & Ink (Sold)

Still here today, just off Mill Lane.  The cottages on the right are long gone, and all that is here now is a boundary fence from the new housing development of East Gate Rise (I remember this same area as the former saw mill sheds). I thought I'd put in Grannie Henderson here, on her way hame to make the clootie dumplin.

Castle Terrace - Pen & Ink

This scene is some time in the early 1900's - still quite unchanged, except the roads here are dirt tracks. Tayport's original Castle, which was in line with Broughty Ferry Castle, stood at the top of Castle Brae (behind this picture).

The Bell Rock - Pen & Ink (Sold)

This area of the town was once Tayport's very busy 'Market Place'.  The outward appearance of the pub has not changed very much, although all the other buildings are long gone.

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